Marcus Lewis recently announced that he will build a new tennis and pickleball facility at 45 Nagog Park Road, on land behind the River of Life Church. His tennis center has been leasing property off Granite Road in North Acton since 2014. Rather than negotiate a new lease, the decision was made to relocate and design a building to Lewis’ own specifications. There will be seven indoor and four outdoor tennis courts and six to eight pickleball courts with a small clubhouse. A “tension fabric” roof over an aluminum frame will cover the indoor facility year-round.
Marcus Lewis opened his tennis academy in 1997 on the courts of Nagog Woods and taught there seasonally. In 2013 he was able to coordinate the covering of the courts with an air supported fabric bubble that allowed him to teach year round. When the Marcus Lewis Tennis Center opened at the Granite Road location, it became the East campus while the bubble became the West campus. The center has grown in membership considerably since opening and, in the late 2010s, pickleball was added. The bubble at Nagog Woods, which currently has tennis and pickleball courts, will become dedicated to tennis after the new facility is built.
Stay tuned for another article when the new facility is about to open.
Jeff Brown is Acton Exchange’s business beat reporter and an average pickleball player.